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In Misconceptions, bestselling author Naomi Wolf she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty, she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers of the OB/GYN establishment lacked compassion. The weeks after her first daughter's birth taught her how society, employers, and even husbands can manipulate...
3) Moving
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Uses letters, stories, and informational text to help children cope with moving to a new home.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In Women Rowing North, Mary Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face. "If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully," Pipher writes,...
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St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner rub you the wrong way?
You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was 'surrounded by idiots', communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated
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English
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We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Drawing on the fields of psychology, neuroscience and anthropology, a New York Times best-selling author unlocks the secrets of mystery's allure, shedding new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the calculated risks of the stock market.
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Pantheon Books
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English
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"In Faster, James Gleick explores nothing less than the human condition at the turn of the millennium. He shines a light of enterprising and analytical reporting - as well as sly wit - on the newest paradoxes of time. His journey takes us through the bunkers and trenches of a war we barely knew we were fighting: to the atomic clocks of the Directorate of Time, to the waiting rooms that focus our impatience, to the film production studios that test...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
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Explores the phenomenon through which people become resourceful and altruistic after a disaster and communities reflect a shared sense of purpose, analyzing events ranging from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Hurricane Katrina.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Do you feel in control of your life or enslaved by your devices? Have you risked your life texting and driving? Do you sympathize with a test group of students who endured painful shocks rather than be separated from their phones? Digital technology is wonderful, but it's making us miserable, say former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. There's a reason Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Guardian he won't let his nephew on social networks....
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? Join Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto, as she investigates how we can reclaim aging, cultivate joy, and resist ageism. Walrond does a deep dive into different aspects of getting older, including health, beauty, spirituality, relationships, adventure, activism, and purpose.
18) Digital madness: how social media is driving our mental health crisis-and how to restore our sanity
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids: Revolutionary research that reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates--and offers a way out. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of researchers sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what screen time does to children, calling it "digital heroin". Now, in Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras...
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Conari Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Explains the psychology of "carnism," a mentality that reflects the human willingness to consume certain animals and not others, and discusses incidents of inhumane husbandry throughout the world, the health risks associated with consuming meat products, and related topics.
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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The Wilds of Aging, is a prequel to In the Temple of Wolves and Deep into Yellowstone and takes you on an illuminating journey into the wilds of aging, a passage we all face if we're lucky. With intimate moments from my revealing internal adventure of heart and mind coupled with stories from external adventures in Yellowstone, Glacier, and Grand Tetons national parks; the Oregon and Washington Cascades; the Beartooth and the Bitterroot Mountains;...
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